Part of the beauty of college sports is the anonymity; on any given day, we can pass Gannon’s best athletes on campus or in class without even knowing it. What sets them apart as big men or women on campus is what they do wearing the Gannon uniform. So without any further ado, I present [...]
Gannon University students Mark Lesniewski and Bryan Stein knew bringing one of the fastest growing college sports in rugby to their school wouldn’t be a tough sell. But it turned out the only thing that moved more rapidly than the sport’s popularity was the time it took the students to introduce a club team at [...]
Cleve Wright seldom backs down from a challenge. His Gannon teams played the same way. Many Gannon University women’s basketball backers will remember Wright for the banners that decorate the Hammermill Center. There were many. But I’ll remember Wright for his commitment to molding not just championship-caliber players but model student-athletes, all the while embodying [...]
The Gannon University lacrosse team will host rival Mercyhurst University in a pivotal match with playoff implications 4 p.m. Wednesday at Gannon University field. Gannon (9-6 overall, 5-4 PSAC) clinched a PSAC tournament berth Tuesday night when Millersville University defeated Shippensburg University. Shippensburg defeated the Knights 13-8 Saturday on senior day when it scored six [...]
Cleve Wright won’t be taking his talents to South Beach, but Gannon’s winningest women’s basketball coach is leaving downtown Erie. Wright was formally introduced as head coach of Division I Miami (Ohio) Friday after spending the previous 11 seasons as coach of Gannon where he built one of the best Division II programs in the [...]
Women’s basketball coach Cleve Wright has resigned as coach at Gannon to take the same position at Miami (Ohio) University, both schools announced Friday. Wright leaves after amassing a 233-100 record in 11 seasons at Gannon, which most recently includes an Elite Eight appearance in 2013. Wright takes over for Maria Fantanarosa, who was relieved [...]
Consider one broken collarbone, an eight-game suspension and a couple of one-game suspensions to be enough damage from Friday’s Dodgers-Padres brawl. Let’s not make baseball’s credibility another casualty by being overzealous in disciplining just one-half of the responsible parties involved in the first donnybrook of the season. When Los Angeles’ Zack Greinke nailed San Diego’s [...]
Gannon University quarterback Liam Nadler calls Brad Rzyczycki a “players’ coach.” “He’ll love you up, yell at you when you need it and then love you up again,” Nadler said. Rzyzcycki, who is technically in his first spring as Gannon head coach after serving under an interim tag until May 3 last year, has gained [...]
In her senior year of high school, Sam Scott’s coach didn’t let his players see their batting average. In her senior year of college, it’s a little harder to ignore when it’s atop the PSAC rankings. Scott’s average is up to .489 despite the Gannon University softball team being on a four-game losing streak. Gannon’s [...]
Tiger Woods enters Thursday’s Masters tournament as the favorite to win with 5-2 odds despite having not won a major since 2008. But the real number Las Vegas oddsmakers should be focusing on this week is the over-under on how many strokes Tiger will win his fifth green jacket by. For the first time since [...]